Diversion tactic for what?
The object of the discussion, which was going on before you got here, was whether or not Gandhi had influenced the black community.
You came in talk on a side note of whether Gandhi's initial racism came from his Indian background or his British education. I said that it could have been both, it's historically unclear and frankly I don't even care either way, the British were definitely racist against Africans, the Indians may or may not have been colorist before British influence and it doesn't particularly matter to me.
Then you started whining about "out of context", and I answered very specifically what I meant by "out of context".
Then you came in and said:
And I showed how that was straight bullshyt after 1907-1913.
Those were public writings and statements. They were well known.
And the ignorant part of your statement is that you're treating it like it was MLK Jr's individual choice. You can't get away with explaining it like it was a personal decision of MLK Jr. to whitewash Gandhi, you have to explain why John Dube, S.S. Tema, W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Hubert Harrison, Mordacai Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., Langston Hughes, Aminu Kano, Kwame Nkrumah, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nelson Mandela, Albert Luthuli, Desmond Tutu, Julius Nyerere, Kenneth Kaunda, and Joshua Nkomo ALL caped for Gandhi. Dube lived within shouting distance of Gandhi and interacted with him all the time, Tema interacted with him too, DuBois interacted with him regularly, Garvey and Gandhi shared books and letters, Johnson and King went all the way to India to study his ways and interact with those who knew him, a lot of the guys on that list studied Gandhi for YEARS before coming to a conclusion about him.
This is called "historical anachronism", where ya'all read something out of context in 2018 and think that people in 1878 or 1943 or 1958 are gonna think just like you do. Political correctness wasn't a thing in their era. Anti-racism was basically not a thing in their era. Black people EXPECTED the average non-Black subject of the British kingdom to be racist. Even the scientists were racist in their day, there wasn't hardly anyone saying, "Don't be racist", anti-racism wasn't seen as a higher moral value. That wasn't saying it was a good thing, it was saying it was an EXPECTED thing.
Tell me the truth now - if God sends you back to 1880 and you interact with some random non-Black subject of the British empire, are you gonna expect them not to be racist?
Black activists didn't care if they learned about Gandhi's previous racism as a young man because they expected ALL them people to be racist by default. What they cared about what that he fought against White Supremacy, and that he eventually realized his racist views were wrong, became anti-racist, and argued for the equality of all peoples including the freedom of all Black peoples from oppressive White British and White American rule.
To act like Gandhi's racist statements in the first half of his life would have put him on the Summer Jam Screen in 1911 is just ignorant.
When did I "make excuses" for them?
I told you where they came from and put them in context. ALL racist sentiments come from somewhere, it's not like people have a little devil on their shoulder that makes them do bad things. Racist behavior is always learned.
You don't seem to have no clue what I'm saying.
DuBois and King and the rest WOULD HAVE CARED if Gandhi had stayed racist. They would have cared if he never promoted African equality. But he didn't stay racist, so they didn't hold his earlier statements against him, his later antiracist work was far more unusual and surprising than his earlier racist past had been.
It's weird as hell you hitting me for this too. I know you've seen me in the Coliseum and Higher Learning put people on the Summer Jam Screen for their racist shyt. I'm the one who got the British White boy banned for talking out of line back in April, and just this week I was the one who put that unconscious agent on blast for regurgitating White Supremacist narratives. I have no tolerance for racist behavior. But I also don't see the point of putting people on blast for shyt
they don't do anymore cause they changed.
